{"id":2889,"date":"2023-07-21T00:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T05:32:58","slug":"rh-fuel-tank-baffle-z-bracket-spar-fitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/rh-fuel-tank-baffle-z-bracket-spar-fitting\/","title":{"rendered":"RH Fuel Tank Baffle-Z bracket-Spar Fitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

-Mounted tank to spar, aligned and strapped in place<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Drilled tank skin to W-423 splice\/joint plate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Drilled inboard Rib – Tank Baffle – Z Bracket <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Removed outer Leading Edge & drilled Outboard Rib – Tank Baffle – Z Bracket <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Separated skin\/inner ribs from the tank end ribs & baffle & removed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

**Note – Figured out why I had such a hard time fitting the ribs into the skin, turns out I had missed fluting the tank ribs, so i’ll have to do that before I refit & drill the assy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-Drilled all remaining Baffle to Z Bracket holes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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-This now has all the Z Brackets drilled to the baffle & spar so I can now continue per the manual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manual Reference:<\/strong> DfD-0021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/td>Installed<\/td>Removed<\/td><\/tr>
Rivets<\/strong> Today<\/strong><\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
Wing Rivets<\/strong><\/td>3429<\/td>74<\/td><\/tr>
Fuse Rivets<\/strong><\/td>165<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
Empennage Rivets<\/strong><\/td>2215<\/td>49<\/td><\/tr>
Total Project Rivets<\/strong><\/td>5815<\/td>124<\/td><\/tr>
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Hours<\/strong><\/td>2.5<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
Total Hours<\/strong><\/td>528.5<\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
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-Mounted tank to spar, aligned and strapped in place -Drilled tank skin to W-423 splice\/joint plate -Drilled inboard Rib – Tank Baffle – Z Bracket  -Removed outer Leading Edge & drilled Outboard Rib – Tank Baffle – Z Bracket  -Separated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-right-fuel-tank","category-right-wing","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhtjl.com\/project\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}